Re: ATM Microcontroller based telescope driver III

[George Anderson <georgea@cam.org>]

Hey guys, remember that he is memory (the controller) limited. All of
these suggestions for PCMCIAA, USB, etc require a bunch of additional
hardware and drivers. And yes those same drivers require memory. And a
lot of those glue-on chips that make life easy are only available in
surface mount with 0.05 pin spacing, a bit difficult with a weller
soldering station.

George Anderson
Montreal Canada

Clear skies and good health

Wesley Bielinski wrote:
> 
> Or how about using one of those USB RAM drives? I've seen 32MB (yes, Meg) for Free after rebate. You could have the user load ALL the software (OS and data) onto it from their PC and then plug it in.
> 
> Bob May wrote on 1/6/04 2:07 pm:
> 
> >
> >Sounds like it is time to add in
> >some RAM memory.  Static
> >ram isn't expensive and only
> >needs two control lines aside
> >from the addressing and
> >data lines needed.  The
> >alternative is another
> >EEPROM or serial RAM. Bob
> >May
> >http://nav.to/bobmay
> >bobmay@nethere.com
> >NEW!
> >http://bobmay.astronomy.n
> >et
> >
> >